Making the most of meetings

Meetings are necessary, but they don’t have to be a necessary evil.

Here’s some sound advice on how to make meetings matter. This advice comes from LinkedIn via Ben Baran, Ph.D., SPHR. Baran says, ” … it’s important to ensure that the right people are in the meeting, that the meeting topics are ones of relevance to the participants, that you actively keep the conversation on topic and that you don’t have meetings just for meeting’s sake. If you don’t need to have an in-person meeting to accomplish your goals, don’t have a meeting. If you want meetings to go quickly, try holding them while everyone is standing up. This works well for 10-minute huddles or daily kickoffs–don’t sit down, don’t get comfortable.”